ABSTRACT
All of us have taken tests of one kind or another, and most of us have taken one or more personality tests. Perhaps this common experience has led psychologists to feel that they and everyone else knows what testing is like, from the subject’s point of view, so there is no need to investigate this topic. Certainly little research has been done on the reactions of subjects to taking tests. Other reasons include the view that research and measurement should be objective in personology as well as in other parts of psychology and in other sciences, and if scientific procedures are objective, it is unnecessary to be concerned with how a given subject feels about being tested. Related to that reason is the view that the subject’s feelings do not affect his scores.
